Logic Quotes

• I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever.

  

  Bobby Sands
  • People
  • Broken
  • Logic

• If he (Spock) didn’t have any emotions, he wouldn’t be interesting. Actually, Spock does have a sense of compassion though he won’t allow himself to believe that. I admire his logic. It’s so uncluttered. I appreciate the ability to be precise. I like to think that I am logical-but sometimes I look back and wonder if the things I do are logical.

  

  Leonard Nimoy
  • Believe
  • Interesting
  • Wonder

• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  

  Logic
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Logic

• But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • World
  • Character
  • Strong

• The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

  

  Paul Ricoeur
  • Logic
  • Skepticism
  • Validation

• Science, logic, and truth should not be partisan issues; they are the cornerstones of fields that have made the United States a leader in innovation and a better place for everyone to live.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Science

• Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Attention
  • Water
  • Eye

• In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.

  

  Denise Mina
  • Real
  • Logic

• If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn’t capitalism-or at least, isn’t any sort of capitalism that would be recognizable from the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, or, for that matter, Ludwig von Mises or Milton Friedman.

  

  David Graeber
  • Logic

• Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Mistake

• Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

  

  P. F. Strawson
  • Language
  • Rules
  • Logic

• The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Moments

• Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Thinking
  • Logic

• Boys always argued as if they knew then had the forces of logic on their side, even when they were being completely irrational.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Logic

• The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

  

  Dai Vernon
  • Mind
  • Logic
  • Steps

• De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Why
  • Fighting
  • Down

• In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • War
  • Age
  • Death

• I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Art
  • Place
  • Outside

• Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

  

  Logic
  • Confidence
  • Logic

• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  

  Logic
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Intuition

• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • History
  • Lies

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